Conway Twitty

About Conway Twitty

Harold Lloyd Jenkins, better known as Conway Twitty, was born on September 1, 1933 in Friars Point, Coahoma County, Mississippi. He was the son of Floyd D. and Velma Jenkins and had an older brother and sister. Conway was married three times. In 1953 he married Ellen Matthews and had one child, son Michael. They divorced the following year in 1954. In 1956 he married Maxine Jaco “Mickey”, the mother of his other three children. Those children are Kathy, Joni Lee and Jimmy. Conway and Mickey divorced in 1984 after twenty-eight years of marriage and in 1987 he married his receptionist, Delores Virginia “Dee” Henry who was eighteen years his junior. They were married until Conway’s death on June 5, 1993 in Springfield, Missouri of an abdominal aortic aneurysm. He was 59 years old.

Conway’s list of awards is remarkably short considering the fact that he was a country music legend who is still selling records today, well over two decades after his death. Here is a list of the awards he won:
Academy of Country Music: 1971, 1974, 1975, 1976: Top Vocal Duo with Loretta Lynn; 1975: Album of the Year with Loretta Lynn for Feelin’s; 1975: Top Male Vocalist.
Country Music Association: 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975: Vocal Duo of the Year with Loretta Lynn.
Country Music Hall of Fame & Museum: 1999: Inducted
Delta Music Museum Hall of Fame: Posthumous inductee
Grammy Awards: 1971: Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal with Loretta Lynn for “After the Fire is Gone”; 1999: Hall of Fame Award for “Hello Darlin'”
Rockabilly Hall of Fame Posthumous Inductee.